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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Donna Ferguson

‘A weed is only a plant in the wrong place’: RHS Chelsea garden celebrates England’s edgelands

In this illustration two people walk through a lush garden with flowering plants, a winding path and a sculpture carved from a fallen sequoia and depicting Gaia lying on her side and peering from the greenery
Illustration of the On the Edge garden Sarah Eberle has designed for this year’s RHS Chelsea flower show. Illustration: Sarah Eberle Project Giving Back

Stinging nettles, buttercups, broken crockery, fly-tipped flowers and a discarded gnome are not the usual hallmarks of an RHS Chelsea flower show garden.

But this year’s On the Edge garden by Sarah Eberle – the most decorated designer at Chelsea – is designed not to look like a garden at all, rather to transport its visitors to the liminal spaces on the outskirts of towns where the countryside begins and nature is in critical need of protection.

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